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  • Stop the EU Treaty! Let´s raise our voices in Ireland!
    14 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On 13 December 2007, the heads of EU States and governments signed the "Lisbon Treaty" which they expect to take effect on 1 January 2009. This Treaty will govern the future workings of the European Union and, like the European Constitution refused by French and Dutch voters in 2005, it will set the course of a neo-liberal, free-market Europe in exactly the same way. The social needs of European citizens are not taken into account. Instead of respecting the wishes of Europeans for a (…)

  • Campaign Against the EU Constitution Next public meeting: 15/02/2008 - 19:30
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Campaign Against the EU Constitution
    Vote No to the Lisbon Treaty
    Next public meeting: Reject the Lisbon Treaty
    Start: 15/02/2008 - 19:30
    A public meeting organised by Sinn Féin outlining the arguments for rejecting the Lisbon Treaty.
    Date: Friday, 15 February at 7.30pm.
    Venue: Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey St., Dublin 1.
    All welcome.
    http://www.caeuc.org/

  • Pádraig Mac Lochlainn to head Sinn Féin Lisbon Treaty campaign
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    DONEGAL Sinn Féin Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has been appointed the party’s director of the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign.
    Speaking at the launch of the party’s Lisbon Treaty alternative in Dublin on Tuesday, Councillor Mac Lochlainn said Sinn Féin will be mounting a major campaign against the Lisbon Treaty and he is calling on people from across the political divide to get involved. He said Sinn Féin members across the country will be going door to door to distribute more than (…)

  • 10 reasons why the Lisbon Treaty is a bad deal for Ireland
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. It puts at risk our automatic right to a referendum on future changes to existing treaties.
    2. It gives the EU too much power and reduces our ability to stop decisions that are not in Ireland’s interests.
    3. It gives 105 additional powers to the EU on issues such as international relations, security, trade and economic policy – and in more than 60 of these areas we will lose our right to stop laws not in our national interest.
    4. It creates an EU Foreign Minister and (…)

  • Sinn Féin launches Lisbon Treaty alternative
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    LAUNCHING Sinn Féin’s alternative guide to the Lisbon Treaty, Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald said this week that the referendum campaign will be very different to previous EU referenda.
    “People know that Ireland’s place in the EU is secure and that it is possible to support the EU and be against the Lisbon Treaty,” she said. “People will be deciding how to vote on the basis of how this treaty will impact on Ireland. This will inform the debate for the coming months.”
    McDonald was speaking (…)

  • What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vincent Browne
    Last Wednesday afternoon, I visited the offices of the European Commission in Molesworth Street, Dublin. I wanted a copy of the Lisbon Reform Treaty, on which we will vote in a few months. One of the three gentlemen at reception gave me a photocopy of the document, the only form in which this treaty is available.
    I noted that on page 10 (I think it was on page 10, for even the page numbers are confusing) Article 1 stated: ‘‘The Treaty on the European Union shall be (…)

  • Why Ireland Must Reject the Lisbon Treaty
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Declan Ganley writes in The Irish Daily Mail’s Saturday Essay on why Ireland must reject The Lisbon Treaty. On this past Thursday morning at 11 am Irish time, a group of 27 European political leaders signed their names to the Treaty of Lisbon. As they wielded their pens, further empowering an unaccountable Brussels elite, one has to wonder if any of them felt the weight of betrayal of the citizens they were supposed to be representing. When was it that the 27 lost their belief in the (…)

  • 66% undecided on Lisbon Treaty
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    An opinion poll published today indicates that nearly two thirds of voters have yet to decide how to vote in the planned referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
    Only 12% of people believe they have a satisfactory knowledge of what is in the treaty.
    However, the poll which appears in today’s Irish Times suggests that of those voters who have made up their minds, supporters of the agreement are leading the way.
    Ireland is the only EU country holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and the (…)

  • Adieu, France
    5 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lisbon Treaty gets Versailles vote
    French MPs have voted to amend their constitution to permit the adoption of the revised European Constitution.
    EU Observer quotes Prime Minister Francois Fillon as hailing the decision as "a vote that distinguishes the actors of history from the spectators."
    Held in a special session in Versailles, the vote by France’s Chamber of Deputies was passed 560 to 181. Opposition Socialists abstained, arguing that while they supported the Lisbon Treaty, they (…)

  • On the simplified European treaty - Pour un nouveau referendum (video)
    24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Révolte au Parlement de l'UE - INCROYABLE
    Dear European friends, et chers amis français de l’étranger,
    I’m really sorry of French speaking only to the following words... but I cannot use other language assuring that there will not be misunderstanding. The subject is of The simplified European treaty from a country that had voted No.
    C’est au sujet de la ratification du traité européen contre la majorité des suffrages exprimés lors du premier référendum que je vous écris (…)